skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a place in the UK where this happens with spooky regularity with people walking.

Sometimes in the military, when crossing a bridge, troops are ordered not to walk in step, because of the stress it places on the bridge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angers_Bridge

A quote: "As usual in crossing that bridge, the soldiers had been ordered to break step and to space themselves farther apart than normal."

More dramatic:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broughton_Suspension_Bridge

A quote: "On 12 April 1831, the 60th Rifle Corps carried out an exercise on Kersal Moor under the command of Lieutenant P. S. Fitzgerald, the son of John Fitzgerald. As a detachment of 74 men returned to barracks in Salford by way of the bridge[6] the soldiers, who were marching four abreast, felt it begin to vibrate in time with their footsteps. Finding the vibration a pleasant sensation some of them started to whistle a marching tune, and they began to "humour it by the manner in which they stepped", causing the bridge to vibrate even more.[6] The head of the column had almost reached the Pendleton side when they heard "a sound resembling an irregular discharge of firearms".[6] Immediately, one of the iron columns supporting the suspension chains on the Broughton side of the river fell towards the bridge, carrying with it a large stone from the pier to which it had been bolted. The corner of the bridge, no longer supported, then fell 16 or 18 feet into the river, throwing about 40 of the soldiers into the water or against the chains. As the water was only about two feet (60 cm) deep at that point none of the men were killed, but 20 were injured, including six who suffered severe injuries including broken arms and legs, severe bruising, and contusions to the head."
Does UC Berkeley really cost $52K per year on tuition? I thought it's a state funded public school. Just curious.
Okay, if we can't help it, let's have an expensive approval procedure. I'm willing to accept this cost is a necessary evil. That doesn't mean however that patents are the only solution. There are other forms of government interventions.

We could make a Manhattan project dedicated at lengthening healthy life expectancy, for instance (who wouldn't like to live a few more healthy decades?). Or we could grant more money to private parties making promising claims. Or we could grant prizes for achieving particular goals (like finding a cure or a vaccine for such and such disease).

> Transparency is important. Just like openly documented patent claims.

The document is a good thing. The monopoly that goes with it is another matter. Promising a monopoly over inventions speed inventors up, but granting one such monopoly slows everyone else down. Plus the costs induced by the patent approval system, and litigations. I doubt this is a good trade-off.
Add to that: "Why racism, ageism, sexism and other problems had by people not like me don't actually exist"
This also rings a bell here I suppose http://bayareaquarterlife.tumblr.com/image/32317753046
"Comparison site uSwitch says the S3 outsold the iPhone on deals from British phone networks in September"

"Although the iPhone went on sale in shops on 21 September"

<sigh>

"... but the figures don't include any phones sold SIM-free."

And therefore also doesn't count orders placed directly on the Apple website. Everyone I know personally who ordered an iPhone chose this route.
Why I use Windows 8
The whole business continues its decent into farce if not.

The Galaxy Tab 10.1 has been destroyed by this temporary ban. While it's been banned nobody's been developing for it, and there's been no chance for any kind of 'buzz'. Its window has now passed, and it'll likely never really get off the ground.

For one company to be able to do that to another with a spurious ban is ridiculous.
Mumbai Hackers and Founders Group - 200 members strong
Yes we'll see how principled Notch is when they wave a fat cheque in front of him...

Money is the divider between words and actions.
Pinterest for apps
iTunes supporting Android would be great for Apple. Unfortunately, it would also be good for Google, so it's never going to happen.
Some confidence intervals on these graphs would really make this a lot more useful...
> The unused variable thing (particularly with local variables) has caught many bugs quickly for me.

I agree, unused variables in any language are great for catching bugs. This isn't an argument for unused as errors instead of warnings.
> Order from chaos! And without any external source of energy.

It's important to understand that a physical system will seek its lowest energy level, and in this experiment, all pendulums synchronized is a lower kinetic energy level than unsynchronized.

> I wonder what other physical phenomena emerge this way.

There are many. A classic example is a phase-locked loop, in which a local oscillator will fall naturally into synchronization with a remote signal source. Again, the synchronized energy level is lower than unsynchronized.

http://arachnoid.com/phase_locked_loop

It's important to say that, if it went the other way, if unsynchronized represented a lower energy level, getting synchronization would be very difficult.
Like https://flutterapp.com/ did? :-)
To complete the series, here's the third "design-ebook-that-was-launched-on-HN-and-made-a-surprising-amount-of-money": http://bootstrappingdesign.com/ :)
Three years into your career (and even less if you're great), formal credentials will matter very little compared to demonstrated aptitude/performance.

But still: you may want to self-educate on some things that a formal CS education was sure to cover, like algorithmic complexity, advanced data structures, metaprogramming, some extra stats/discrete math, etc. – so that you don't have blatant gaps in your mental toolset that mark you as a purely improvisational/'raised by wolves' coder.

Once you do, and know your skills are comparable to peers with a formal degree, feel free to apply to jobs that may explicitly request a degree: just be ready and open with the case that you have equivalent experience. (That is: even if a listing doesn't say 'BS CS or equivalent experience', assume that it does.)
notch never said he minds closed platforms (he uses them and publishes on them), he said he minds the PC getting closed off

I think that's a distinction without a difference. In what sense is an ipad, or a PS3, not a PC?
I asked myself the same question and came to the following conclusions: Less turtleneck, less hipsters, more user satisfaction, hardware that actually worked properly, more than a 7% market share, less hype, not another unix clone.

More Sony in the 80's and 90's than Lady Gaga meat hat.
That doesn't work. There is no answer to the question "when did you stop beating your wife" except "I never started!"?

Or if you are unmarried, just say "I don't have a wife".
Allegedly, yes: http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/home/cost.htm

These are total costs, not just tuition.
Outside of games, I can't think of anything that uses WASD.

About those keys - with the possible exception of S - all those keys are tied to significant functionality you wouldn't want to replace.
With Rdio and Spotify both working well on Android I don't see much need for iTunes.
iTunes supporting Android would be great for all Android users. iTunes is a great market with excellent apps which are not ported for Android.Unfortunately,like you said,Google will never allow this.
By your numbers, someone going straight into the workforce could save about $50,000 each of the first four years the peers are in school, amounting to ~$2M by the time the person approaches retirement age. That is compared to the ~$3M that could be made by the gains in post-graduation income by retirement. However, the cost of the $140,000 education by the time you reach retirement is ~$1M so you have really only just compensated for the education with the higher income. And all that assumes that you will be able to earn more with said degree. While it certainly happens, I am doubtful that it holds true for all graduates. There is a lot of financial risk there, for what appears to be little to no monetary reward even when you do win.

With that said, there are a near infinite number of positive reasons to partake in a post-secondary education. It doesn't need to come with better jobs and higher incomes to make it worthwhile. I find it rather sad that many feel we have to resort to showing higher future incomes to even justify going.
> In my opinion, the gains in opportunity are far and away the more valuable win with a degree.

It is a very simple question of cost versus benefit. And tuition rates are rising so fast that any conclusion arrived at by calculation is necessarily a temporary one:

Washington Post: "Chart of the day: College tuition is out of control" [2011]:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/chart-of...

A quote: " ... since 1978, college tuition and fees have been getting expensive at a much, much faster rate than even medical care"
I was thinking more for a music point of view. How many users could Apple win over into the ecosystem just by letting you sync your iTunes library with your Android phone? I'm thinking a lot.
I'm far more bothered by Apple's process of discovering features that were on Palm / Windows Mobile / Symbian / ... phones for ages and then either patenting them or figuring out a way to twist decade-old Mac OS patents into covering them.
Are you seriously suggesting that there are some contexts where rape is funny?
Stratasys doesn't care about stopping him - they just don't want their company's name on it.
If this is about the affordability of 3d printers, couldn't a desktop CNC machine do something similar? You can buy one on amazon.com for $350-ish:

http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Toolworks-CNC-Carving-Machine/dp/B...

I don't know if it would be adequate, but it has a working space bigger than some pocket pistols for sale today. Guns are relatively simple machines with forms existing for a century still sold new today. Such as bolt action rifles.
Do you have any indication of whether the likes of AppShopper will be impacted?

I could see it both ways - on one hand AppShopper is straight forward, isn't obviously attempting to impersonate the app store and adds value.

But I can also see how it could be read that it would be the sort of thing they're thinking of (though I've no idea why).
You are issuing the point entirely. Notch is highlighting the fact that Callahan presented a loaded argument: that he only supports open platforms. He then highlights the sheer unfairness of the argument with an absurd and controversial statement of his own: that of goat rape.

That's not a joke, that's a form of argument ad absurdum.
Does anyone really care what Woz says these days? Really?

I know he accomplished some cool stuff 30-odd years ago, but why is his opinion still relevant? What technology is he actually working on now?

He just seems to be a reliable semi-controversial rent-a-quote for busy journalists. He's not even that insightful.

I realise this will cost me karma, but whatevs.
What has Kevin Systrom's life been like since the Facebook acquisition?
Some people really like their 22/7: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201003/whe...

Though come think of it, is this a thing particular to US education? I don't remember ever encountering this in elementary school. I think the early math lessons were just set up never to require irrational numbers, and from 7th grade on (this was somewhere around 1993) we used calculators which gave us PI and trigonometric functions.
BREAKING: hacker nerd who has had nothing to do with Apple for 3 decades takes positions markedly different from Apple orthodoxy.

Woz always takes very predictably pro-hacker positions; I'm not clear why we regard it as news when he does.
At least it doesn't have a logo with lens flares....
Google Music is also pretty good, at least when it comes the storing existing music library (I'm outside of the US so I cannot buy music there).
Do you believe that it gets harder by age? I mean, I'm at the same spot as the original poster but I'm 30 years old. Does it matter?
Yes , you can do it. As other people here mentioned degree has brownie points. But you should know about certain CS concepts like Algorithms, data structures ,databases and networks and some maths. I think all this can be done by self learning. Plenty of resources like OCW,edx or coursera available for videos lectures. Best of luck buddy.
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The "Tone argument" doesn't apply to the person who's being annoyed (they are not making a tone argument), but to someone who 'replies' to them.

Think of "tone argument" like "ad hominem", it's a reply to what someone says, but you don't actually respond or address what they said, instead you address how they said it in a very angry manner ("tone argument"), or based on what sort of person they are ("ad hominem")
london's "millennium bridge" mentioned briefly in the first article.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiaM_LZUsqM
Of course it's subjective. I don't like all the stuff you like. We don't all want to work at McDonalds where everyone eats it even though it's crap.
My point is that his choice of absurd and controversial statement detracts from his point. I see what he's doing there, but I don't like it.
I wonder if he's thought of using Classic Shell to get rid of the metro interface: http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/
He just changed it to "goat murderer".

I wonder if a "is murder ever funny?" discussion will ensue now...
> In what sense is an ipad, or a PS3, not a PC?

In the sense that you can't tinker with the software (let alone replace it) on-board from the device itself, short of having preemptively forced said device open from a third-party device. They don't provide any way to bootstrap yourself to a higher level of knowledge, or even to a business. And you remain at the mercy of the platform's gatekeeper.

Not so with the a PC.
I use a similar setup, but I've been bitten by having Mutt and OfflineIMAP accessing the same Maildir concurrently. So instead, I run a local copy of Dovecot to expose a local IMAP server that both Mutt and OfflineIMAP talk to my Maildir through. This also means that I can trivially set up things like Thunderbird or MacBiff, using the same local IMAP server. Rube Goldberg would be proud.
From my own experience, I know it gets hard sometimes working as a solo developer when you don't have anyone else around to discuss the technical details.

If you want to bounce off ideas or discuss anything related to this project with someone, please feel free to contact me. I'd be happy to assist you in my free time.
I love and support apple from the first days when I went to canada I fell in love with Macs, we had those black and white ones and with Think Pascal. I wrote some code, got some A's for work and so on. I am not fan boy but I have deep respect for that Apple is to me and the industry.

Frankly it all has gotten out of hand - after all this is all is a good sport, bloody noses aren't necessary. Samsung should negotiate reasonable royalty, apple should agree. Slap on some disclaimer how "apple" their products are and apple should calm down and refocus on their products - as a leader of the industry. Perhaps look for another strict leader like Steve Jobs was - but with experience in the industry. Tim Cook with maps fiasco frankly didn't impress me at all. See comparision of two apology letters from cook and jobs.

And they should put it all behind.

However apple has been know as a being a brilliant kid with short attention span and tantrums to remember. So I'll make a bit of popcorn and watch on...
Here's someone suggesting that: http://www.thenation.com/blog/168856/anatomy-successful-rape... (among a number of other points)

I'm not entirely convinced that it is ever a good idea to make a rape joke, but I see where her argument is going.
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First time when I submitted this article the title was :"Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak gives jailbreaking...",like the original link title.I rewrite it because somehow I agree with you.But Wozniak will always remain the Apple's cofounder and his oppinon will metter for some people.
>In the sense that you can't tinker with the software (let alone replace it) on-board from the device itself, short of having preemptively forced said device open from a third-party device. They don't provide any way to bootstrap yourself to a higher level of knowledge, or even to a business. And you remain at the mercy of the platform's gatekeeper.

Right, but all that would be equally true of a putative locked-down windows 8 device. I don't understand how notch can oppose the one but support the other.
Will.i.am and Simon Cowell have teamed up to find the new Steve Jobs
Yes, that is clearly what he is suggesting, and it's true. Dead babies, testicular cancer, and genocide can also be hilarious in the right circumstances.

However, the author must have decided that this wasn't actually one of those times, seeing as he changed the title to Don't be a goat murderer...
I believe the maily folks should do some market research and learn more about their target users. Computer savvy kids will, I suspect, find this product too simplistic and condescending.
> Does anyone really care what Woz says these days? Really?

It's not so much that Woz is a source of wisdom and insight, it's more that there are few gurus and "experts" in computer science (generally a good thing) willing to offer opinions.

Woz is in the position of being able to take philosophical positions that people won't be likely to argue with, because of his long incumbency in the field of computer technology.

But that's an explanation, not an excuse. In fields that depend on scientific reasoning, there's no justification for accepting the opinions of experts based solely on their position. As Richard Feynman famously said, "Science is the organized skepticism in the reliability of expert opinion."
No one said you had to.
Have you considered using two accounts instead?
A death blow for PPTP - cracking PPTP as a service
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You have a valid point.

But with that said, I think Woz is a very cool individual that's fun to listen. Does the radical / polar position toward the Apple cult make him that? Perhaps. However his work, albeit 30 years old, is still an inspiration, and his public persona isn't entirely focused on bashing the modern Apple methodology.

I don't know what he's working on now, if anything in concrete, but he's obviously not sitting on his hands :)
Here is an argument that rape jokes and "murder jokes" are not entirely equivalent: http://opinionade.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-murder-is-funnier...
The "Jimquisition" does a great piece on why murder is more socially acceptable than rape in the context of video games.
What kind of brainstormer are you - a "Shower", "Bouncer", or "Alone" Thinker?
I've had those combined file operations on nautilus for quite some time, the pause button is nice though
> troops are ordered not to walk in step, because of the stress it places on the bridge

Not really, not because of the "stress." The walking rhythm may match the natural oscillation of the bridge thus resulting in a resonance effect. At least that's what they taught us in high school.
I'm amusing myself with the thought that Steve Jobs and Andy Warhol are somewhere in the great beyond and have just flipped a table at the notion of trying to find the "next" Steve Jobs via what's so erroneously called "reality" television.

But I'm just projecting heavily.
For anyone using Postgres who doesnt mind getting their hands dirty with a bit of plpgsql, there are always Materialized Views - http://tech.jonathangardner.net/wiki/PostgreSQL/Materialized...
Seems like he's apologising for using Windows 8, and that we don't really care.
it's a news topic in austria ...

https://www.google.at/search?hl=de&gl=at&tbm=nws&...
Am I the only person who read the acronym as 'Bay Area Query Language'?
A user interface is subjective -- even more subjective than other things you might design. The point of a chair is clear. It looks "sittable". How can I convince you that this pattern of lit-up phosphors looks "tappable" or "grabbable"? When you click on a file in the sidebar, do you want to open it or just select it? You want my program to do something, and I want to show you how to do it. We're trying to figure each other out -- you and I -- through this computer program.

All the tools we have to communicate are very subjective. We've both used other programs before. You know what a printer looks like and what buttons with printers on them do. I can make some physical allusion like a page curl (you can drag it to see more) or a nubby, grabbable texture (you can grab and pull whatever it's attached to). But without this shared language, there's literally nothing to go on. Objectively, my pretty interface is just a grid of lights.
Ask HN: Startups, how do you not lose focus?
You have a great idea. Great! Now let's get building it.

I know I didn't want to handle that so I tried this to make it easier so I wouldn't need to do that but this is giving me a headache so I need to do that to do this which needs to do that and that to do this and this to do that! So much work, so much progress, so much fixing that and not worrying about this to do that.

So, why was I doing all this work in the first place?
why should he get that matrox thing if a <150€ ati gpu can run 3 monitors without any problems on its own? the TripleHead2Go seems to be something you'd use for a laptop.
I think I should be able to, though I've never tried.
There are reasons why you would want to upgrade, security, forward-compatibility, and product support. Since XP is becoming completely unsupported in a year, that's a very compelling reason.

Your last sentence doesn't really make any sense. If you're testing thoroughly you shouldn't run into any issues that are completely breaking.
We created this group about a year back to strengthen the tech-startup ecosystem in Mumbai.

Thanks a lot to all the members for becoming a part of it, sharing knowledge & helping each other.

Let's continue to make Mumbai a great place for technology startups that can solve challenging problems, create amazing products, build great businesses & make this world better place for everyone.
Isn't Bovet & Cesati a bit out of date now? I used to have a copy, but it was published in 2005, which means it was probably written in 2004.

Also, it's not kernel-specific, but this book covers a lot of system programming concepts (expensive though):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linux-Programming-Interface-System-H...
Showbiz hype. Even Steve Jobs wasn't Steve Jobs -- his story is at least as much the outcome of the times and places in which he lived as his personal traits.

It's just a way to attract an audience to a modern myth -- in this case, that there are people who succeed regardless of the random circumstances in which they find themselves. There's precisely no evidence for this idea, and plenty of counterevidence.
They are going to integrate Opera Turbo to make it faster over slow networks. Also they have some new caching technology currently used by their Maps.
Forgive me, I fail to see the irony in talking about Opera in response to a comment regarding the Opera browser....
I don't believe the point was missed, the article could still use absurdity without the absurd act being rape. It was distracting to use rape as the absurd action and weakened the message delivery.
In the same vein, you can try http://flag.io/:

curl -T /path/to/any/file flag.io
# or
cat some-file | curl -T - flag.io

Basically, pipe anything you want into it. It can also syntax-highlight your text files.